
A Church hymnal #286
Display Title: O Sacred Head, surrounded First Line: O Sacred Head, surrounded Date: 1870
A Church hymnal #286
1 O sacred Head surrounded
By crown of piercing thorn!
O bleeding Head, so wounded,
Reviled and put to scorn!
The pow'r of death comes o'er you,
The glow of life decays,
Yet angel hosts adore you
And tremble as they gaze.
2 I see your strength and vigor
All fading in the strife,
And death with cruel rigor,
Bereaving you of life;
O agony and dying!
O love to sinners free!
Jesus, all grace supplying,
O turn your face on me.
3 In this, your bitter passion,
Good Shepherd, think of me
With your most sweet compassion,
Unworthy though I be:
Beneath your cross abiding
For ever would I rest,
In your dear love confiding,
And with your presence blest.
Source: RitualSong (2nd ed.) #598
First Line: | O sacred head surrounded By crown of piercing thorn |
Title: | O Sacred Head Surrounded |
Latin Title: | Salve caput cruentatum |
Author (attributed to): | Bernard of Clairvaux |
Translator: | H. W. Baker (1861) |
Meter: | 7.6.7.6 D |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Although the Psalter Hymnal Handbook states that Sir H. W. Baker revised James Waddell Alexander's "O Sacred Head Now Wounded" which was an English translation of Gerhardt's "O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden" which was a German translation of "Salve caput cruentatum", it appears that "O Sacred Head Surrounded" is a translation from the Latin (See "A Historical Companion to Hymns Ancient and Modern," edited by Moorsom, 1889 in which Baker translated other texts from Latin)- Dianne Shapiro |
Copyright: | Public Domain |